Darius Mugisha
6 October 2008
Kampala — Singer Joseph Mayanja aka Jose Chameleone was on Saturday night flown to Kampala injured after falling off the third floor of Impala Hotel in Arusha Tanzania on Friday night.
Chameleone, together with his younger brother Emma Mayanja, also a singer in the former's Leone Island crew, had travelled to Tanzania to perform at a music show.
Speaking to Daily Monitor from his hospital bed at Nsambya Hospital on Sunday morning, Chameleone said he hardly remembers the events that led to his falling from the Hotel room. "I remember going to my bed that night and slept. But the next time I opened my eyes, I was on the floor surrounded by several people. I cried because I was feeling a lot of pain and I could neither stand up nor turn my body," Chamelone said.
Chameleone is said to have sleepwalked through the window of his hotel room. Chameleone added that the hotel management rushed him to AICA Hospital in Arusha where he was first admitted before he called his wife, Daniella Atim, who later organised for the singer to be flown to Kampala in a private chartered plane.
"She called her dad, [my father in law] Rev. Fr. Father John Scalabrini, who chatered for me a private plane that flew me to Kampala where I was rushed to Nsambya Hospital on arrival at about 8pm on Saturday evening," Chameleone said.
Acording to sources at Nsambya hospital, Chamelone broke both his ankle joints. Chamelone, one of Uganda's leading artistes , was set to undergo another scan by press time.
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